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Photograph of St. Helena Island Light
Photograph by US gov, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Helena Island Light Station

Built in 1873. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The buildings of the St Helena Light complex are the sole surviving structures on St. Helena Island, in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan.”

Wikipedia article St. Helena Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1873.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. St. Helena Island, Lake Michigan, St. Ignace, 49781
  • When was it listed? April 1988
  • Category. district
  • Township. Moran township
  • When was it built? 1873
  • National Register reference number. 88000442 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of St. Helena Island Light Station between 2000 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGROS CAP
18 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestOLD #9
13 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGROS CAP FIRE
18 April 2015Fireworks55 acresHiawatha National ForestPRAIRIE LANE
18 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestLA BARBE
31 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestBEACH FIRE
3 October 2000Natural30 acresHiawatha National ForestCRANBERRY
1 October 2000Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestPTE. AUCHENNES

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sacred Heart-Gros Cap Church2.0 miles2016
Gros Cap Cemetery3.3 miles1971
St. Ignace Mission5.9 miles1966
John Chambers House6.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88000442 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac CountyAll 22 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.